We "inherited" some Python code recently. Although another team was working on
it, we now should support it and keep it going. The previous team at least
tried to use Pylint and follow PEP8. And I say "tried" because their
pylintrc has a couple of exceptions [1] and their PEP8 ...

Let me start this by pointing that I'm a RESTnazi: I'm the kind of guy that
will get into a fight with anyone that says things like "Ok, that's because
this is just REST, not RESTful" because... well, because, there is no
diference between REST and RESTful ...